· Private foundation
The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKNELL FUND | $18,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | $10,250 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $10,000 |
| TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL | $10,000 |
| FREDERIC GUNN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| STRAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS - RAISE THE ROOF CANPAIGN | $5,000 |
| GILLEY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE TREE LIGHTING | $2,000 |
| SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $1,050 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| MDI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MDI NURSING ASSOCIATION | $700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +45%- TFTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +210%
Bucknell University5× · 2017–2021 · $49k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NNCPAone grant, 2017 · $6k
- NPNATIONAL PARK CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
- COCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC - EVENT EXPENSESone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Community Service Center ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Newtmont Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · The Ausolus Trust · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Edward C Johnson Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.